They can not recieve firmware updates. They are always provided by the OEM

*qbittorrent

I disagree, I am under 50 and wear an analog wristwatch every day, but if I want to know the time I just look on my phone.

Those numbers only include instances that have telemetry enabled

I love that everyone knows austria for sound of music, but nearly no austrian heard about it

Source: I am from austria

Ublock origin + sponsor block on desktop, ReVanced on Android and SmartTube on Android TV, no ads.

Probably not the best for focus on privacy but you can avoid ads

Sorry should habe clarified, I know shit about US politics. I’m from Europe.

You are comparing basic addition with extremely complex social economics. You can’t just do A and guarantee B will happen. But if B actually happens it can be good for one group of people and bad for another one. Often the best solution is some kind of compromise. That said there surely can be some obviously bad ideas.

You can look into Plasma Bigscreen

I also found this, It’s for a RaspberryPi but surely can be adapted:

https://gist.github.com/seffs/2395ca640d6d8d8228a19a9995418211

You can look at the source of the snap and check what it does

I don’t have any experience with your exact question.

But I would look into xinit and try if you can start just mpv.

If this doesn’t work look for a slim WM and configer it that the applications are displayed in fullscreen and launch mpv after the WM.

Probably any of the tiling window managers should work: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager

+1 for nix, but I wouldn’t recommend it as a first distro

Squash me later

Create your input for email and password with the id / name “email” and “password” and hide them with CSS. Then you create the real inputs with an id like “zipcode” or some other thing that would throw bots off.

Password managers hate this trick

If you create an image of the disk in the current state from a live boot or an other machine. You can try fixing it without having to risk making things worse

I agree on your take, but I don’t think that “future scaling” is a concern for the most home users.

How could you tell it was secure?

Just mount it to a fixed location in /etc/fstab, but use a mount option like nofail or nobootwait (quick search showed that this is the option for ubuntu users), so your machine still boots when the drive is not connected

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